The Electric Company"The Junior Assistant"
Francine wants to be on the next season of the "The Junior Assistant, " a reality show run by The Ronald, one of the most rich and famous people in the world. She must collaborate with Hector and The Electric Company to make six hundred cookies by five o'clock in order to prove she's worthy of being on the show. D

2:30 pm

WordGirl"The Learnerer/Mr. Big's Dinner and a Scam"
THE LEARNERER - Using his talent to see things once and learn them immediately, The Learnerer is able to steal the giant Santa Tortuga diamond from Ms. Von Hoosinghaus. When WordGirl arrives to save the day, all of her moves are thwarted by The Learnerer, who has been studying her every move. Will she come up with a new move or will The Learnerer get away with the diamond? Vocabulary Words: Suffix, Misjudge. D

3:00 pm

Wild Kratts"The Gecko Effect"
There's a mystery to be solved, as the Wild Kratts team wonders how a Gecko lizard climbs up smooth surfaces and can even climb upside down. The gang uses their Miniaturizer to shrink down and discover it's all about physics: all objects have electrical charges that attract one another and the gecko's marvelous toe pad structure charges so much that they can walk on surfaces as smooth as glass. But in the meantime Zach has stolen their Miniaturizer and now imprisons them in a glass terrarium. D

3:30 pm

Cyberchase"Measure for Measure"
Hacker's mysterious machine is finally revealed - "The Transformatron"can change anyone into anything! He learns the kids have the Network Interface Card - the final piece he needs. But the kids have also found a map that leads them to Coop, Slider's long lost father. They are shocked to discover Coop has been a victim of magnetite. D

4:00 pm

Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman"I'll Ruff and I'll Ruff and I'll Blow Your House Down"
Ruff sends DJ out to a dog obedience school to become an expert trainer while Noel, Sammy and Jay go to an engineering school to construct a new home for Chet. D

4:30 pm

Arthur"What's Cooking?/Buster's Special Delivery"
What's Cooking?: Celebrity chef Ming Tsai is coming to judge Lakewood Elementary's first ever cooking contest! Arthur thinks he has a shot at winning - if only he can get his dad to stop telling him what to do. In the end, Arthur experiences the joy of cooking firsthandà and he discovers that sometimes culinary mistakes create the best dishes. Buster's Special Delivery: Buster volunteers to deliver the school mail and finds out that his new job is actually hard work! When misplaced letters lead to canceled field trips and stewed prunes with lunch, Buster is left holding the bag. D

5:00 pm

The Electric Company"The Junior Assistant"
Francine wants to be on the next season of the "The Junior Assistant, " a reality show run by The Ronald, one of the most rich and famous people in the world. She must collaborate with Hector and The Electric Company to make six hundred cookies by five o'clock in order to prove she's worthy of being on the show. D

5:30 pm

Nightly Business Report
Questions about earnings and the economy make investors edgey and that slams Wall Street stocks. NBR's Susie Gharib speaks with S&P's Alec Young. They say big things come in small packages. D

Joanna Lumley's Nile
Joanna flies over the world's largest swamp, the Sudd, in southern Sudan. In Juba, she finds the fragile peace process has brought the re-emergence of beauty pageants. From Juba, Joanna heads into Uganda where she follows the White Nile up to Murchison Falls. Her trip culminates with meeting a modern-day adventurer who shows her a recently discovered new source of the Nile in Rwanda's mountains. Part 4 of 4G

8:00 pm

Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War
In October 1962, the world teetered on the brink of nuclear holocaust. The film brings to life the three central characters - Kennedy, Castro and Krushchev - and explores how these powerful men fell into an abyss of their own making and outlines the courage and luck it took to climb out again.G

9:00 pm

Secrets of the Dead"The Man Who Saved The World"
Little known events unfold inside a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This program combines tense drama with eyewitness accounts and expert testimony to reveal how Vasili Arkhipov, an officer aboard the submarine, refuses to fire a nuclear torpedo and averts disaster.G

10:00 pm

Frontline"Climate of Doubt"
In 2008, climate change was hot. Politicians in both major parties, pressed by an anxious public, seemed poised to act. Today public opinion has cooled and politicians ignore the issue or proclaim their skepticism of scientific evidence that human activity is imperiling the planet. FRONTLINE correspondent John Hockenberry of PRI's "The Takeaway" goes inside organizations that have fought the scientific establishment, environmental groups and lawmakers to shift the direction of debate on climate issues and redefine the politics of global warming.G